The Persian Manual: A Pocket Companion Intended to Facilitate the Essential Attainments of Conversing with Fluency and Composing with Accuracy, in the Most Graceful of All the Languages Spoken in the East

Page 220 - The cadi, having sent for the dervise, asked — " Why did you throw a clod of earth at his head instead of answering his questions ?" The dervise replied — " The clod of earth was an answer to his speech; he says he has a pain in his head : let him shew me where it is, and I will make God visible to him.